Eliezer Ben Elijah Ashkenazi - Works

Works

Ashkenazi's printed works, besides the Yosef LekaḦ, are the following:

  • A commentary on the Book of Esther
  • Ma'ase ha-Shem (The Works of God; Venice, 1583; several other editions), a commentary on the historical portions of the Pentateuch, written for the instruction of his son Elijah, and containing also a complete commentary on the Passover Haggadah, which has frequently been published separately
  • Eight "selihot" (penitential prayers), included in the Bohemian liturgy
  • A "tokahah" (homily), published by his son.
  • His supercommentary to Nahmanides, and his critical marginal notes—said to number one thousand—on Joseph Caro's Bet Yosef, have not been preserved.

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